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Wikimania 2022/Individual Reports/Anuary Rajabu

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Welcome back from Wikimania 2022! Please write your report here. Once you have completed the application, please email the link to wikimania(_AT_)wikimedia.org (by 30 September 2022). If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to email us.

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Anuary Rajabu
How did you attend Wikimania (virtually or in-person)?

I attended virtually

What did you spend the scholarship funds on?

I spent the funds on small hardware expenses i.e I bought headphone and webcam to support access, Data packages i.e I paid bill for fast Internet and familiy services.

Takeaways – choose 3 specific Wikimania sessions you attended and describe your key take-aways per session.
  • Education and Partnership (Speaker: Sandeep Kaur) - In this session speaker explained how the present article aims to describe the education and partnership to ensure the quality based education for children, Wikipedia partnership in education is a great opportunity for teachers and students to learn 21st century skills. There are a lot of projects of Wikipedia that will started in the classroom to promote quality based education and Reading Wikipedia in the classroom is the most beneficial project for everyone to promote knowledge equity and to develop vital media and literacy skills.
  • Digital Security Basics (Speaker: Konstantin) - This session was very interesting and eye opening on how to work and interact with online digital environments. The digital software's introduced to us, online identity ideas, password ideas discussed where very educative and assuring while navigating the online space, this boosted my confidence of working and interacting with digital environments.
  • Improvements to the desktop Wikipedia experience (Speakers: Olga Vasileva, Alex Hollender, Szymon Grabarczuk) - Also I got a chance to attend this interesting session where speakes explained how the Web team at the Wikimedia Foundation has been working to create a better desktop experience for readers of Wikimedia wikis and community members for many years, regardless of their language or location.
How did you connect with other people during Wikimania 2022? How did you celebrate at Wikimania 2022?

It was a great opportunity to connect with my fellow Wikimedians from different places around the world. I tried to use the various meeting platforms by direct messaging into peoples inboxes during sessions, I also participated in a few lighter talks and fun games on the Pheedloop platform.

(Optional) Please share link(s) to your social media post(s) about Wikimania